To:V. N. LOBOVA, A. Y. MINKIN, Y. M. YAROSLAVSKY[1]

Published:First published (in facsimile) on November 24, 1929, inPravdaNo. 274.

      Sent to Perm.

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26. II. 1920

ComradesLobovaMinkinY. Yaroslavskyand if they are not in Perm, then to othermembers of the Perm Gubernia Committee of the R.C.P.The bearers, ComradesFyodor Samsonovich Sannikov,Grigory Ivanovich Mikhalev,Platon Pavlovich Moskalyov,
came to me from Kalinin,

Theyare non-Party people, but create an impression of
remarkable conscientiousness.

Theyare requesting re-registration and checking of the
members of the Uyezd Party Committee (they are from
Perm Gubernia, Usolye Uyezd, Polovodovo Volost) on the
plea that there are many of theworstelements in the local
Party.

Willyou please fulfil their request.

Letme know the results of the check-up.

Giveme the names of those members of the Uyezd Party
Committee (in Usolye and in the volosts of Usolye Uyezd)
who arepersonallyknown to you and are absolutely
reliable.

Withcommunist greetings,V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

[1]Regardingthis letter, Yaroslavsky wrote subsequently: “It was
addressed to three comrades who were then members of the Perm
Gubernia Committee. At that time the situation in Usolye was
rather grave. Shortly before this, a new front—the Kai-Cherdyn
Front—had been formed there. Remnants of Kolchak’s forces and
northern interventionists had organised bands in Cherdyn, where
they had used the connections of the recently abolished Kolchak
regime and exploited the dissatisfaction caused by the stupid
bungling of some of the local Party officials who had antagonised
the Zyryan people as well. As far as I remember, the Perm
Gubernia Committee, on receiving Lenin’s letter, sent a man to
Usolye to ascertain the state of affairs on the spot, after which a
commission was set up which reviewed the composition of the
leading bodies and changed it at a specially convened Party
conference.” =

(PravdaNo. 274, November 24, 1929.)